Thursday, May 7, 2009

What's in your button jar?

At last I've settled on a subject for my "identity" quilt and one of my ideas may involve these:Then again, it might also involve washers and other metal things. What do you use to attach things onto your quilts?

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An inexpensive item I like to use is Thread Heaven to sew items on art-quilts. Not only sews smoothly (no knots or tangles) - it is very very strong. Comes in variety of colours - the taupe is my favourite. Brenda I bought this from Fiona Hammond but it may be available from Spotlight ?? and if not then from bead shops.

I havent glued anything (yet) to a quilt so cant comment on that practice. Items can be pressed into melted glue (from gluegun) then painted - these may be made so that they can be attached (sewn) to fabric. A little complicated due to paint-type applied but I can give you further details if this interests you.

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About Twelve by Twelve

We are twelve quilt artists who embarked on an art challenge together. We're from different places throughout the world and our artistic styles vary, but we share a love of art quilting and a desire to play, experiment, learn, and grow.

For four years (2007-2011), we each made a 12x12 inch quilted art piece on a designated theme or palette. See our Theme Series and our Colorplay series.

For the 2012 Series, we changed things a bit and made rectangular pieces, 20x12 inches with roughly 10 weeks between each challenge. As before, we had a designated theme for each challenge.

We shared our process, progress, and results on this blog. It remains a key record of our rich collaboration.